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Whenever I see a DOS thread, I like to remind people of eXoDOS, one of the most impressive archival efforts of every DOS game ever. Complete with manual scans, extras, and all neatly sorted in a launcher.



Thanks for mentioning that. Didn't knew it existed, looks fantastic to keep as historical record before it is lost in the sands of time.


Thank you for this, been looking for Destruction Derby 2 and the one contained in this works like a charm, brings back some memories!


FTwebsite: "Get the Full Release via Torrent (638GB)"

Ouch!


PRO TIP: You could select in the torrent to only download the particular game you care about and work it out yourself, easy, just did it with Destruction Derby 2 and works great.


other weird thing about exoDOS is you don't download and run. there's a huge decompression process that takes at least a few hours and generates 999 gorillion files. use on disk would be more than 638 GB consequent to the decompress-and-create-a-gorilloin-files process. Then again what you can do, this is arguably smarter than just torrent out a gorillion tiny files


There's also a light version that gets things on demand. But it's really a DOS museum as an archive. I recommend the larger one


>Ouch!

Being a data hoarder can pay off.




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